It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Television is supposed to be simple, so the complication [of HDTV] seems more dramatic.

There were some television sets back in the ’50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy’s apartment down the hall to watch Milton Berle on his 10-inch black-and-white screen.

We’re hoping the format’s going to be reinvigorated with next-generation capability that may include living-room or normal television playback.

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Mdanganyifu hudanganya wanaopenda kudanganywa.

It is extremely difficult to do anything constructive, let alone deep, on daily commercial television, especially on a talk show.

I don’t just watch TV all day long. I also listen.

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything’s handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture,...

I like TV shows that motivate me to want to improve my life, as I sit listless on the sofa hour after hour, night after night. My desire to self-actualize grows with my waistline. If...

And yet that’s the best way to watch television actively: with your eyes closed.

We’re so used to events being portrayed in particular ways that when they actually happen to us, and our life bears no resemblance to expectation, we don’t really know how we’re supposed to respond. Our...

Tengo una teoría: la televisión no pertenece a la cultura sino a la neurología; estimula un enlace de neurocircuitos que te permite ver en estado de zombi, suspendiendo el juicio. Y no sólo eso, también...

In television, the writer-creator-showrunner is embraced as the creative mind.

Kill your television!

I always wanted to work on films, and when I was starting in television in this country, in Great Britain, there really wasn’t any film to be made.

I’m addicted to documentaries. That’s all I watch on television.

You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film… at least in Hollywood studio films.

How many times have you been watching an episode of ‘South Park’ and thought, ‘I’d like to be able to watch this on my television while hooked into my mobile device, which is being controlled...

Generally speaking, if you think something you want to do is wrong, it is.

Ah man. I remember the days of lying to my mother about a boy. Once I had a boy hidden in the closet and of course Mom wouldn’t leave, so I finally had to pretend...

Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own. Humans will return to...

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?

Audiences see personalities on shows interacting with wild animals as if they were not dangerous or, at the other extreme, provoking them to give viewers an adrenaline rush. Mostly, the animals just want to be...

It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.

Es cierto que la televisión, a diferencia de los instrumentos de comunicación que la han precedido (hasta la radio), destruye más saber y más entendimiento del que transmite.

The difference between extras and audience members is that audience members don’t get chairs. Audience members are the daylaborers of the industry. When it’s sunny, we stand in the sun. When it’s cold, we stand...

Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.

The chief problem with television is that, for those who watch it consistently, it undermines and eventually destroys the ability to think. This is because it communicates primarily images, not by words, and words are...

People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don’t like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.

I spent my time drinking and staring at a television in the airport bar. More death and destruction. Crime. Pollution. All the news stories were telling me to be frightened. All the commercials were telling...

But it is not time constraints alone that produce such fragmented and discontinuous language. When a television show is in process, it is very nearly impermissible to say, “Let me think about that” or “I...

It’s very, very tough for television. It’s tough to hide. When you have a cameraman and you have a soundman, you pretty obviously stand out in those areas.

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

Any woman can be a siren one minute and in pigtails the next. I am a very complex person with more than just the one facet that television played on.

The weird thing about working in television is that you only see the people that you’re in scenes with.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

I am uninterested in appearing in newspapers and on television. Many people think I am striking a pose – that I want to create a sense of shyness. But it’s just not something I want...

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.